Anna+Benzinger+Griesser+(1892-1969?)

I remember visiting her in the Leavit homes projects in Lorain when I was young.

Parents unknown. (Annas mother was related to Lyman Hall) They died when Anna was 5. Her mom might have died in childbirth. Her dad died 6 months later of a broken heart. She had 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Frank and Jack, one sister died at birth and one choked on an orange seed at 18 mo. in a high chair.

Anna went to live in aconvent because no one would take a girl in. The boys were taken in by a relative possibly. We know she stayed with an Bessie from time to time, Xmas, summer. She also stayed with a Judge Heisler in Baltimore. She married to get away from him.

Anna Benzinger married William Griesser while he was in Medical School at Johns Hopkins. She was a nurse's aid. When he was a resident, shortly after after having my grandmother, he was kicked out of the program for drinking. He was an alcoholic until his death at 64.